Understanding Practice: Perspectives on Activity and Context (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives) - Softcover

Chaiklin, Seth

 
9780521558518: Understanding Practice: Perspectives on Activity and Context (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives)

Synopsis

Brings together the many different perspectives that have been applied to examining social context.

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Review

'Understanding Practice is an important contribution to the direction of the field. It has a cohesive theme that is timely in the direction of several disciplines, including psychology, anthropology and education.' Barbara Rogoff

Book Description

Forms a diverse and fascinating look at situated learning. A distinctive feature of the book is the wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches to the problem of understanding cognition in everyday settings.

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9780521392631: Understanding Practice: Perspectives on Activity and Context (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives)

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ISBN 10:  0521392632 ISBN 13:  9780521392631
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1993
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